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Cello: Michiaki Ueno

Michiaki Ueno, cello

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In 2021, he became the first Japanese to win the Geneva International Music Competition Cello Division, and won three special prizes.
Winning the 6th Tchaikovsky International Music Competition for Young Musicians, the 6th Romanian International Music Competition, and the 21st Johannes Brahms International Competition, he has become a hot topic one after another on the international stage. He has performed with major orchestras in Japan and abroad, including the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Symphony Orchestra, the Swiss Romande Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic. Actively performing mainly in Europe and Japan.
After studying at Toho Gakuen University, he was invited by P. Wispelway and moved to Germany at the age of 19. Currently studying under Gary Hoffman at the Queen Elisabeth Conservatory. The instrument used is a 1758 PATestore (Munetsugu Collection), and the bow is a F.Tourte, borrowed from an anonymous collector.